Date: Sun, 29 Feb 2004 10:57:36 -0800 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Teilhard Knight <teilhk@hotpost.co.uk> Subject: Re: Athlon Message-ID: <200402291057.36737.kstewart@owt.com> In-Reply-To: <20040229183627.GA52230@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <04b301c3feef$88d057a0$220110ac@ARLETTE> <20040229183627.GA52230@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk>
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On Sunday 29 February 2004 10:36 am, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 12:12:02PM -0600, Teilhard Knight wrote: > > Just a couple of easy questions for you. Is a machine with an > > Athlon processor 1.4 MHz an i386 machine? And if so, what kind of > > processor should I select in my kernel? i586, or i686? > > One of these? > > CPU: AMD Athlon(TM) XP1600+ (1400.06-MHz 686-class CPU) > Origin = "AuthenticAMD" Id = 0x662 Stepping = 2 > > Features=0x383f9ff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MC >A,CMOV,PA T,PSE36,MMX,FXSR,SSE> > AMD Features=0xc0480000<MP,AMIE,DSP,3DNow!> > > As /var/run/dmesg.boot says, it's a 686 class processor. > I was going to send one of these but then I got to thinking about what you needed to know before you download an iso or whatever. The web site really doesn't tell you that an Athlon is a 686 and you need to know that before you do the install and can look at the dmesg output. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html
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